Chord Quotes
157 Chord quotes by 142 unique authors
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Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to…
— Willie Nelson
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The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a…
— Josh Radnor
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
— Lou Reed
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I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for…
— Lou Reed
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Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a…
— Keanu Reeves
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want…
— Ville Valo
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You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
— Sid Vicious
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Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open…
— Angus Young
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I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key…
— Neil Young
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You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled…
— Frank Zappa
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Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the…
— Nick Hornby
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the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world…
— John O'Donohue
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or…
— William Cowper
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I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single…
— David Levithan
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I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal…
— Nicholson Baker
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Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a…
— Jodi Picoult
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all…
— Joni Mitchell
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Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a…
— Maggie Stiefvater
Who Wrote These Chord Quotes
142 authors contributed a total of 157 Chord Quotes, led by these top contributors: